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The Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research & Policy is dedicated to closing the gap between injury research and practice to reduce and prevent the fires, poisonings, drownings, car crashes, domestic violence and other causes of injury that kill, disable and inflict pain in alarming numbers. The statistics on injury are chilling:
• In the U.S., injury is the leading cause of death from ages 1 to 44.
• Every day 16,000 people die from injuries worldwide.
• Injuries cost the U.S. $406 billion annually. For more than 20 years, the Center for Injury Research & Policy—based at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health— has helped to redefine injury as a pressing public health problem and to promote it as a scientific discipline through high-quality research, advocacy and education.
The Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research & Policy was established in 1987 with core funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as part of the federal agency’s early efforts to support more research in the evolving field of injury prevention. The funding initiative was a response to the growing awareness of injury’s staggering toll and the minimal amount of research funds available to scientists in the field. The Center was one of five research initiatives based at universities that received CDC grants to build “centers for excellence in injury research.” Today, there are twelve such centers throughout the U.S.
The Center has built a twenty-year record of leadership in injury research, service and education, guided by a commitment to ensuring that quality research is translated into programs and policies that make a difference. In 2007, the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control honored the Center with its inaugural Injury Prevention and Control Health Impact Award.
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